Anyone hear about a DAL engine failure on takeoff in ORD?

Glad all is well!!! You should get a paid month off or somthin'! My bet is you were calm, cool, collected, and professional...Exactly what you get paid for, huh. Congrats...Some emotional decompression in order?
 
Woo! Good deal.

Looking at the online editions of the papers nothing has shown up yet, who knows if it even will though...
 
Glad you're alright!

Just wondering and I should know this since i'm working on my CFI but does this sort of thing that happens with a non-eventful ending.. does this sort of thing end up in a ntsb report?

well i'd like to hear the story as well as a few other thousand visitors to this site would! :D Again glad you're ok :)
 
Did your training pretty much take over,like in the sims ? Or, was there any wasted seconds , such as in the " oh damn, daamn, daaaaamn " factor you always read about ?Glad it worked out.

HS
 
This still wouldn't make him current as he would need two more. I think there are easier ways to do that.

Nice job man, I guess all that sim stuff we do is for a reason.
 
I guarantee this won't even make the news in Chicago. No one was hurt, there was no time for the sensationalistic live news coverage. The only people who will care at all are the people who will bitch because they were late and missed their connection.

I would like to take everyone who thinks pilots are overpaid, and put them in Doug's seat for those few minutes. Let 'em crash and burn (a sim of course) and see what they have to say then!

Bill lunched a motor in ATL with TWA several years back. A very exciting experience. It happens to just about everyone at some point, that's why you train for it!
 
We 'broke the code'.

Wheels up to wheels down was about 14 minutes so any of the chopperazzi that monitors the frequency didn't have time to activate.

No video means no news means no story! ;)
 
alphaone said:
Excellent job bro! Does this happen often in the airline world??
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Most of us will go a whole career without having a turbine engine fail. Especially today's engines. 28 years and 20,000 hours and I haven't had one, yet (knock on wood).

Good job Doug.
 
Was there a big bang? Right at V1?

The closest I've come was on an Air Canada 747-400 out of FRA to YVR. I was in business class and at about 100 knots there was a pretty good bang followed by vibration. I thought it was a tire. We taxied back in and it turned out in was a contained engine failure.
 
Its to bad no report. I would like to hear what CNN or any of the news stations report on it. (Because they know everything and are never wrong, especially about aviation) Take their "play by play" and compare that to Dougs.
 
DT saves the day.....Nice job. I wanna hear the play by play whenever you got....an hr :)

I had an engine failure in IMC on climbout once....I guess judging by the posts, thats probably it for my career (if I go turbine ;) )

Glad to hear training paid off.
 
I'll check the papers tomorrow. See if there was anything about it. Might be a small blurb, only because there has been a rash of engine failures due to bird ingestion at ORD lately. UAL, AAL all have had failures and were forced to return when hitting geese and stuff. I'll ask my Dad, since he gets the paper daily and informs me of all aviation related news. ;)

Was it at V1? Hit a walrus, didn't you. Arrrooooo*BAM*
 
Doug Taylor said:
Took off on 32L landed on 27L!

I hear the FO's a real stud! And good looking!
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Dude ...
Wish I would have known sooner, I'm sitting over hear at MDW ... Landed here at 10am local ... could have come over and treated you to a shot of medicinal brandy ...
 
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